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First edition. 4to. xx,112pp. Contemporary half leather, marbled paper boards; spine tooled in gilt into 6 compartments, with floral tools and Celtic harps. Full page, hand colored engraved frontispiece by Rowlandson showing a bard and his harp on a mountainside surrounded by local listeners. Pp. 61-112 consist in full page engraved plates of bardic music. This volume comprises the Second Volume of the 'Musical, Poetical, and Historical Relicks of The Welsh Bards and Druids'. Text includes Bardic Triads, Taliesin's Creed, British Proverbs and a Dialogue between Arthur and Guinevere among many other collected relics. A contemporary hand has altered the date and place of publication. Light rubbing and edgewear, armorial bookplate, else a very good copy of a landmark study. Preceeded by 'Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards' in 1784 (enlarged in 1794), and followed by 'Hen Ganiadau Cymru' in 1820. The three volumes collect 209 bardic melodies, most of them Welsh.
The Bardic Museum, of Primitive British Literature; and Other Admirable Rarities ....
Jones, Edward, Bard to the Prince
London: Printed for the Author, 1802.
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8vo. 434pp. Contemporary faded and stained plain green cloth rebacked in a deeper green cloth with gilt spine titles and rules. A few stains and marginal notes; three bookplates; notes on rear endpapers; repaired tear on C3; else a very good copy. The History of the Druids is followed by Huddleston's copious notes, critical, philological and explanatory.
A New Edition of Toland's History of the Druids
Toland, John, and Robert Huddleston
Montrose: James Watt, 1814.
Price: $500.00
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8vo. 434pp. Bound to style in full polished calf. Spine in six compartments with raised bands and blind tooling; red leather title label, gilt. Marbled endpapers. Boards tooled in blind. Lightly foxed throughout else a near fine copy. Early gift inscription on a preliminary blank. The History of the Druids is followed by Huddleston's copious notes, critical, philological and explanatory.
A New Edition of Toland's History of the Druids: With an Abstract of his Life and Writings and a Copious Appendix
Toland, John, and Robert Huddleston
Montrose: James Watt, 1814.
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